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title: 'Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Emanate'
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# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Emanate

- **Company:** Emanate
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/emanate/c888c190-8010-43cd-9d3c-520db6fc212e/application

**Skills:** System deployment, Integration development, Debugging, Deployment pipeline optimization

> As a founding member of the engineering team, you will deploy and tune systems for enterprise customers, bridge the gap between core engineering and user needs, and build integrations and deployment pipelines.

## Job description

As our founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Emanate, you’ll be at the front lines with our customers—deploying and tuning our systems in real-world environments. You’ll bridge the gap between our core engineering team and the unique, complex needs of our enterprise users. Moreover, you’ll build out the foundation of how this org will grow and expand. Expect to wear many hats: building integrations, debugging gnarly edge cases, optimizing deployment pipelines, and shipping features that materially improve the user experience.

## About Emanate

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Emanate provides an autonomous AI revenue engine for industrial materials companies, handling inbound capture, account expansion, pipeline creation, and pricing decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Stealth/Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: 2026
- **Founders**: Kiara Nirghin

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Industrial supply chain, AI-powered revenue operations, industrial materials
- Target customers: Industrial materials companies (steel, piping, construction materials, etc.) — B2B, mid-market to enterprise
- Mission or purpose statement: “To help the most important industrial materials companies in America experience exponential growth” by bringing AI advantages to the “physical economy” that has been left behind by digital transformation.

## Products & Services
- **Emanate Revenue Engine**: An autonomous AI platform that continuously executes revenue operations across four engines — Convert (inbound capture and quoting), Cultivate (account expansion and cross-sell), Proactive Actions (pipeline creation and prospect research), and Pricing Intelligence (deal-history-informed pricing). The system handles phone calls, email RFQs, web forms, win/loss analysis, margin trends, competitive positioning, and customer behavior — all without requiring headcount additions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding undisclosed; backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Peter Thiel. The company emerged from stealth in February 2026.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Peter Thiel, Alexis Ohanian (as reported by Fortune)
- **Growth Signals**: Emerged from stealth in February 2026 with high-profile backing; claims measured impact of 60-80% reduction in RFQ response time, 3x increase in customer lifetime value, and 40% more qualified opportunities for clients; founder Kiara Nirghin is a Gen Z standout generating significant media attention.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain specificity**: Built exclusively for industrial materials companies, not a generic CRM or AI tool — understands the unique workflows of RFQs, spec sheets, inventory checks, and tribal knowledge
- **Four-engine architecture**: Combines inbound, expansion, prospecting, and pricing into one autonomous system rather than requiring multiple point solutions
- **Founder-market fit**: Kiara Nirghin’s background and vision have attracted top-tier investors and media coverage, signaling strong execution capability
- **Zero-downtime AI operations**: Designed to run revenue operations 24/7 without human intervention, compounding output across every workflow and deal

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the autonomous revenue engine across more industrial materials verticals
- Building out the go-to-market team and engineering organization to support growing customer demand
- Continuing to differentiate from generic AI sales tools by deepening industrial domain expertise
- Expanding from inbound capture and quoting into full lifecycle revenue automation

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company’s manifesto emphasizes building “real systems engineered for complexity, built for load, designed to hold” — appealing to engineers who value robust infrastructure and tangible impact on the physical economy
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Based in San Francisco, CA; specific remote/hybrid policy not detailed on careers page
- **Engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on AI systems that handle real-world industrial workflows (phone calls, RFQs, inventory checks) — a blend of AI/ML, workflow automation, and domain-specific logic
- **Growth trajectory**: Early-stage startup backed by a16z and Peter Thiel, meaning significant ownership, impact, and career growth potential for early employees
- **Mission-driven**: Focus on modernizing America’s industrial supply chain — a sector that has been underserved by technology — offers a sense of purpose beyond typical SaaS

## Sources
1. [emanate.ai](https://emanate.ai/)
2. [Emanate Product Page](https://emanate.ai/product)
3. [Emanate Manifesto](https://emanate.ai/manifesto)
4. [Emanate Jobs (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/emanate)
5. [Fortune: Peter Thiel–backed industrial AI startup emerges from stealth](https://fortune.com/2026/02/09/exclusive-peter-thiel-alexis-ohanian-new-ai-industrial-startup-emanate-kiara-nirghin/)

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